Spotlights
Faculty and Staff Successes, December 2014
December 01, 2014
University Service Awards
Gordon Alderink, Frederik Meijer Honors College, 30 years
Brian Cole, Center for Adult and Continuing Education, 20 years
Sally Vissers, Women and Gender Studies, 20 years
Peter Anderson, Frederik Meijer Honors College, 10 years
Jack Mangala, African/African American Studies, 10 years
Zulema Moret, Latin American Studies, 10 years
Faculty and Staff Successes
Jeremiah Cataldo, Assistant Professor of History in the Honors College, published a chapter entitled: “The Other: Sociological Perspectives in a Postcolonial Age," in E. ben Zvi and D. Edelman, eds., Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period.
Kelly Clark, Visiting Professor in Religious Studies and Honors College, was quoted in a recent BBC Mundo article on atheists in Muslim-majority countries entitled "Los países en los que ser ateo está castigado con la muerte.”
David Eick, Faculty in Residence at the Frederik Meijer Honors College, was selected as the recipient of the Student Award for Faculty Excellence (SAFE). He will be presented with the award at the upcoming President’s Ball on February 6.
Randa Elbih, Visiting Professor of Liberal Studies, sits on the committee that helped establish the first full time Islamic School in Grand Rapids. The Open House of the first full time Islamic school was on Saturday December 6.
Richard Hiskes, Professor of Political Science in the Honors College, gave a keynote address, “Human Dignity and the Intergenerational Promise of Environmental Human Rights,” at a European Science Foundation Conference in the Netherlands.
Zulema Moret, Latin American Studies Coordinator, wrote a book, La Mujer De La Piedra.
Mambo Mupepi, Professor of African/African American Studies, wrote a book, British Imperialism in Zimbabwe: Narrating the Organizational Development of the First Chimurenga (1883-1904).
Patrick Shan, East Asian Studies Coordinator, wrote a book, Taming China’s Wilderness: Immigration, Settlement and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900-1931.
Judy Whipps, Professor of Liberal Studies and Philosophy, was interviewed about education in the Progressive Era by a writer for the online publication JSTOR Daily. The article, “The Rise and Fall of Education for Leisure” was published on December 3.
Karen Zivi, Associate Professor of Political Science in the Honors College, was selected to attend the Global School on Socio-Economic Rights Course: Sexual and Reproductive Rights Litigation at Harvard University. She wrote an article, “Performing the Nation: Contesting Same Sex Marriage Rights in the United States,” published in the Journal of Human Rights.